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Fri 11 Nov 2009Anger over threat to community projects
Some of the most deprived communities in the State would lose "essential services" such as after-school projects, meals-on-wheels, créches and adult education if Community Development Projects (CDPs) were closed, a protest in Dublin was told today.
The closures could set the communities back over 20 years, causing "huge long-term damage - increased early-school leaving, increased domestic violence and social despair and alienation worse than that seen in the 1980s," said Cathleen O'Neill, manager of Kilbarrack CDP in north Dublin.
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